ble buildings for
trade and manufacture or for prosecuting agricultural enterprises.

Article 3. Japanese subjects shall be free to reside and travel in
South Manchuria and to engage in business and manufacture of any
kind whatsoever.

Article 3a. The Japanese subjects referred to in the preceding two
articles, besides being required to register with the local
authorities passports which they must procure under the existing
regulations, shall also submit to police laws and ordinances and tax
regulations, which are approved by the Japanese consul. Civil and
criminal cases in which the defendants are Japanese shall be tried
and adjudicated by the Japanese consul; those in which the
defendants are Chinese shall be tried and adjudicated by Chinese
Authorities. In either case an officer can be deputed to the court
to attend the proceedings. But mixed civil cases between Chinese and
Japanese relating to land shall be tried and adjudicated by
delegates of both nations conjointly in accordance with Chinese law
and local usage. When the judicial system in the said region is
completely reformed, all civil and criminal cases concerning
Japanese subjects shall be tried entirely by Chinese law courts.

Article 4. (Changed to an exchange of notes.)

The Chinese Government agrees that Japanese subjects shall be
permitted forthwith to investigate, select, and then prospect for
and open mines at the following places in South Manchuria, apart
from those mining areas in which mines are being prospected for or
worked; until the Mining Ordinance is definitely settled methods at
present in force shall be followed.

PROVINCE OF FENG-TIEN

|Locality |District |Mineral
| | |
|Niu Hsin T'ai |Pen-hsi |Coal
|Tien Shih Fu Kou |Pen-hsi |Coal
|Sha Sung Kang |Hai-lung |Coal
|T'ieh Ch'ang |Tung-hua |Coal
|Nuan Ti Tang |Chin |Coal
|An Shan Chan region |From Liaoyang to Pen-hsi |Iron

PROVINCE OF KIRIN

(Southern portion)

|Sha Sung Kang |Ho-lung |Coal and Iron
|Kang Yao |Chi-lin (Kirin) |Coal
|Chia P'i Kou